The heartbreaker
0.4804
points from the title
Came within 0.4804 points of the Grand Championship at Simmons Energy Permian Basin BBQ cook Off Invitational (BACKYARD ONLY)(JUDGES FULL) ().
Solaris Companies
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1514
peak 1514 · rated over 1 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2021-09-29
latest 2021-09-29
Grand champs
0
1 reserve
Category wins
0
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
2
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 7%
overall standings
Best overall
323.0284
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Top-10 streak
2
and counting
Best single call
163.5084
Strongest meat
Brisket
avg 162.33 · weakest Pork Ribs (153.21)
Backyard avg
308.03 / 360
1 Backyard contest · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Storylines (2 found in this team's record)
Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
Announced themselves early
2nd
at their very first contest
Finished 2 of 46 at their very first tracked contest, Simmons Energy Permian Basin BBQ cook Off Invitational (BACKYARD ONLY)(JUDGES FULL) ().
- 46-team field
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The nearest teams in the power rankings, with a different reason on each card — six teams on one rating are rarely on it for the same reason. Rating decides who makes the list; where teams tie on it, the ones this team has actually cooked against come first, then teams at a similar point in their own career. KCBS doesn’t publish where a team is from, so nothing here is inferred from geography.
Solaris Companies has 1 rated contest — short of the five it takes to earn a power ranking — so this rating has barely moved off the 1500 every team starts on and 107 rated teams sit within a point of it. Read the list as the nearest company at a number nobody here has moved far from, not as a verdict on who this team belongs with.
#2688 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1513
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#2681 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1514
No shared contest yet.
Level with Solaris Companies on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2692 of the rated field
- Contests
- 7
- GCs
- 1
- Top-10s
- 14%
- Peak
- 1513
No shared contest yet.
Their rating is built on 1 Grand Championship in 7 contests, alongside a 14% overall top-10 rate.
⚔ Head-to-head#2666 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1516
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#2672 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1514
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#2698 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1513
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2015, 6 years before Solaris Companies's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 159.5200 | 146.8912 | 153.21 | top 25% |
| Pork | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
| Brisket | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 163.5084 | 161.1428 | 162.33 | top 7% |
“Calls” = top-10 category finishes (getting called to the stage). Scores here are the final weighted totals KCBS publishes; per-criterion appearance/taste/tenderness marks aren’t in the public results feed.
The story so far (13 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0 yrs
2021-09-29 → 2021-09-29
Busiest season
—
1 contest
Contests a season
1
across 2 seasons in the data
Cooks most in
TX
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Pork Ribs
2 entries · 0 wins · 1 calls
Strongest meat
Brisket
averages 162.33 · weakest Pork Ribs (153.21)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 2 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
100%
2 of 2 contests
Best top-10 run
2
straight contests — and still running
Backyard average
308.03
out of 360 · 1 contest · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
87
93–5 across every shared overall standing
Power rating
1514
peak 1514 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- First tracked contest Simmons Energy Permian Basin BBQ cook Off Invitational (BACKYARD ONLY)(JUDGES FULL)
- First call Simmons Energy Permian Basin BBQ cook Off Invitational (BACKYARD ONLY)(JUDGES FULL)
- First overall top-10 Simmons Energy Permian Basin BBQ cook Off Invitational (BACKYARD ONLY)(JUDGES FULL)
- First overall podium Simmons Energy Permian Basin BBQ cook Off Invitational (BACKYARD ONLY)(JUDGES FULL)
- First Reserve Championship Simmons Energy Permian Basin BBQ cook Off Invitational (BACKYARD ONLY)(JUDGES FULL)
- Career-best overall score323.0284 Simmons Energy Permian Basin BBQ cook Off Invitational (BACKYARD ONLY)(JUDGES FULL)
- Career-best single call (Brisket)163.5084 Simmons Energy Permian Basin BBQ cook Off Invitational (BACKYARD ONLY)(JUDGES FULL)
- 2021
- Most recent contest Permain Basin Barbeque Cook-off (BACKYARD ONLY)
Category scores over time
Overall finish over time (top-% of field, lower is better)
Where they finish (overall)
Best vs average (by meat)
How entries end (by meat)
Season by season
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 4% | — | — |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100% | top 9% | 85.6% | 85.6% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-09-29 | Permain Basin Barbeque Cook-off (BACKYARD ONLY) MIDLAND, TX | 5 / 54 (308.0340) | — | 18 (146.8912) | — | 2 (161.1428) |
| Simmons Energy Permian Basin BBQ cook Off Invitational (BACKYARD ONLY)(JUDGES FULL) unrated Midland, TX | 2 / 46 (323.0284) | — | 8 (159.5200) | — | 5 (163.5084) |